Silas

Dark or Rad. Strong debuffs, get their key powers early and have a self-heal for when things go south.

50m for both.

Ehm, you generally want the ones casting veng to die last, so as few mobs as possible get buffed by veng.

It's the Nemesis Lts, though. But if you kill them before any of the minions/bosses in a spawn, you'll have an entire spawn fully veng'd. Not good.

Farming normally I find the Lts die about halfway through a spawn, so only the bosses/one or two Lts get Veng. Since its only huge +def against melee/ranged, you can still wipe them out spamming AoEs.

Team Melee Pityslot :3

Get wrecked, all Scrapper ITF.

Congrats

Minotaur's info is great.

Just to elaborate on the set IO bit:

What I found to be a really helpful tip when looking for good niches to work with was a tip I read in this forum somewhere.

Stuff that people always want is the stuff that moves well. In order to get a good idea of what people always want, look at your own builds. Look at the sets you're always using, the sort-of default sets for types of powers. Look at builds from all over the forums, you'll it's always the same sets coming up again and again.

I saw in my builds I was using a lot of Decimations or Thunderstrikes in my ranged attacks, Posi Blasts in my TAoEs, Crushing Impacts/Touch of Deaths/Mako's Bites in my melee attacks and so on.

And all of this stuff sells for different amounts. For example, Decimations can be on the pricier side, (20-40m for some pieces), whereas Crushing Impacts or Doctored Wounds rarely go for more than 5-10m. So start with the cheaper stuff and work your way up.

A good rule of thumb is to reinvest about half the profit you make back into bids for stuff. If you get 50m profit off a flip, bid in 25m of bids on stuff. That way you're constantly active on the market as well as having cash on hand for when you want to BUY IT NAO for yourself.

Another thing I found useful was getting an idea for how people are lazy. People paying the BUY IT NAO prices on crafted stuff are where the big bucks are. For me, I'll generally not bother crafting something unless there are no crafteds for sale or the price difference is truly huge, (as it can be on a lot of big ticket items like purples, LotG 7.5s, Miracle +recs, etc), because I am super lazy.

Rare is the person who buys recipes for every IO in their build and crafts them up. Common is the person who buys recipes for the pricey stuff to craft. So. What do you do? You spend a lot of time making the 'filler' type stuff. The meat and potatoes of builds. Going back to what I said above, this is pretty much all attack stuff. Almost everyone has attacks, but per build you can only have a few purple sets, so all the other attacks are gonna have low-mid priced stuff. Work on that stuff.

The stuff that doesn't cost so much that people will just say fuggit and buy the crafted version.

Oh and above all, be patient. Put in bids before you go to work, or before you go to sleep or before you start playing properly. Collect and relist when you get back from work, when you wake up or between missions. Waiting on stuff to move that isn't common salvage is often an exercise in frustration. Plus other stuff needs to be done anyway and the whole beauty of the market is that your money is working away while you're doing other stuff.

Also, we kick puppies.

Speaking of making such a build and trying it out, I can't help much. I have IOd my Fire/Fire dom out, but it wasn't a full balls-to-the-wall DPS build. I went for permadom without Hasten level recharge and softcapped smashing/lethal defense. No Poisonous Ray, no Hot Feet, no pets other than Fire Imps.

Having read this though I was curious. I took him out against a Pylon to see where his DPS came in at. I forget the exact number, but I think he came in at about 230ish DPS. It'd probably be more if the Fire Imps didn't get blown to bits in a single volley, so I didn't bother summoning them.

Given the nature of -res, I can definitely believe that adding Poisonous Ray would shoot my DPS through the roof, I just couldn't swing it at the level of recharge I wanted.

Ah right, thanks

Mind/Nrg for safety, Fire/Nrg for damage.

Fire being comparatively light on control isn't a big deal as /Nrg has so much.

Edit: my bad, nvm

You should roll a Corr.

Love it, cherish it, then roll a few more.

Make lots of Corrs, they're fantastic,

Don't make Scrappers, they're dumb n' spastic.

Still no official word on how rogue/vigilante APPs/PPPs will work, unfortunately.

A friend of mine who went to HeroCon asked if Brutes will ever get Fireball and apparently one of the devs said yes, with GR.

Assuming his info is good, there are still a number of ways it could go. Brutes could get Scrapper APPs, Tanker APPs or some new Brute APPs. Who knows. But if Brutes are getting Fireball, it's likely they'll get an APP with Physical Perfection.

That said, I still wouldn't drop Blaze/Fire/Soul Mastery for Body Mastery. Footstomp is great AoE, sure, but Fireball/Dark Oblit are still very solid AoEs and not worth skipping. There are tonnes of IO and slotting options for endurance management, you can't get a second solid AoE from IOs.

Edit: my personal hope is that the devs don't take the lazy route out and just give Villain ATs their roughly-equivalent Hero ATs APPs. I'd like new APPs for Villains, even if you don't go Rogue. I've wanted elemental masteries for villains since forever

The one thing sustaining my hope for this is that if Brutes got Scrapper or Tanker APPs, there'd be doubled powers. I mean, okay, sure, it's only Conserve Power from /EA which no one plays, but you know, still

Plus the flipside of OMG STUFF COSTS SO MUCH TO BUY = OMG I CAN SELL STUFF FOR SO MUCH